New HD

Nope, unless you are running 2000, XP SP1 or the original release, then you need to install a registery file to enable support past 137GB. Linux supports it natively out of the box as XP SP2.

Do you happen to know where to get the registry file? Thanks

If you're installing Windows clean on the new drive, you will need an XP CD with SP2 on it. If it doesn't have that, you can only create a 137G partition. Once you install SP2, you can then partition the rest as a second drive.

You can make an SP2 XP CD by slipstreaming.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

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@old Driver wrote:

Do you happen to know where to get the registry file? Thanks

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It depends on who made your HD, go to the manufacturer's webstite and look under downloads.

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@ejn63 wrote:
If you're installing Windows clean on the new drive, you will need an XP CD with SP2 on it. If it doesn't have that, you can only create a 137G partition. Once you install SP2, you can then partition the rest as a second drive.

You can make an SP2 XP CD by slipstreaming.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

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You don't need an XP CD with SP2 on it. If windows is already installed you can download it from windows update and poof full access pass the 137GB. barrier. And if he was using 2000, XP SP2 doesn't do squat, so therefore the only way to get past it would be the registery file.
Here are the main manufacturers sites with the file
Seagate:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html
Maxtor:
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=%2Fen_us%2FSupport%2FSoftware+Downloads%2FAll+Downloads&downloadID=11
Western Digital:
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp